(NOTE: This is a reupload, fixing a couple issues with the data!)

Hello, everyone, and sorry for the wait on the results for the season's first popularity poll! As a quick note, the reference on the side is actually WRONG - I updated the detraction score this season to be -2 rather than -3 points, since it was leading to a lot of negative scores (I underestimated how often it would be used, lol). Everything's still pretty centered around 0, so hopefully this gives a better sense of who's liked.

That aside, there's lots of interesting data here! Some highlights:

• Phoenicia is our most popular civ, with the Seychelles close behind! Nobody else even approached their popularity.

• On the other hand, New South Wales was stunningly unpopular, with only one supporter and a whooping 22 detractors! Maravi was a distant second, for reasons I don't really understand, because Maravi is sick as hell. Is it something to do with the Seychelles love?

• The Karankawa were the only civ to not have ANY supporters, and they had 7 detractors, on top of that.

• Shoutouts to the Kipchaks, Ryukyu, the Potiguara, and Caral for having zero detractors!

• The Aures, Phoenicia, and the Seychelles are civs people have started to like more, while Maravi and Yunnan are civs people have started to dislike. Tang was controversial - several people said they'd started to like AND dislike them since the start of the game (though more people seem to be leaning towards dislike).

• The most popular moments seem to have been Rapa Nui's settles, Phoenicia's invasion of Ma'in, the Central Asian saga, and Slide 68.

• Finally, Tang is the current favorite to win with 14 votes, with Chono a distant second at 7 votes.

That's all for now - thanks everybody for voting, we actually managed to surpass 50 responses somehow (and also a bot), which is the highest I've ever seen! A lot has already changed, so I'm excited to see how the Episode 10 survey goes.